Our country's response to any agressive act by a foreign power should be overwhelmingly out of proportion. Kill a soldier, lose a division. Kill a citizen lose a city. Kill a diplomat, lose your foreign ministry and so on.
Bullies are not stopped with councling or a smack in the face. Bullying stops when the bully get's the crapped beat out of him.
More rubble, less trouble.
“Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!” Theodore Roosevelt.